We didn’t have a numeral ‘six’ to recycle so Bryan got the numbers 2 and 5 plus one candle to celebrate his 26th birthday:
Dawn and Bryan without his usual goofy smile but now he had nerd glasses:
Jack ruining a picture:
Jack ruining ANOTHER picture:
Stacy and Jack made Bryan a birthday card:
We celebrated Bryan’s birthday with dinner at Sakura:
Aunty and Jack:
We just realized we have birthdays in January (mom), February (Aya), April (Dawn), May (Bryan) and June (dad)…so five of the first six months we celebrate at Sakura…even Stacy likes Sakura!
Aya and I have been wanting to go the Lobsta Truck for quite some time now but we could never manage to go when it was close by. Luckily, last week the Lobsta truck was in Culver City:
We were debating which sandwich to eat the crab or lobster so split it and got one of each:
I think the Lobster roll was better. There were several other trucks there as well, but we ended up trying the Baby’s Badass Burgers. They were Food Network winners for burgers on a roach coach. I must say it was pretty good!
So the weather was suppose to be partly cloudy all week. We had one ‘free’ day and there was not a cloud in the sky…and Aya and I lounged…it was postcard worthy from our lounge chairs:
Aya and I kept debating, sit and lounge in the sun or do something. We ended up booking a fishing trip. We paddle out 1/2 mile or so and fish for a few hours. We decided to give it a try and Umi was our guide….it was perfect because he baited all our poles and got us drinks, fruit, etc.
At first it sucked because we could see the fish but we couldn’t catch the fish! We could feel them biting but we couldn’t hook them:
Normally, Aya has done quite well fishing but this time I was dominating! I caught the first fish:
Then another:
Then Aya’s luck turned around and she started to catch some fish:
Aya was catching different varieties of wish:
Then as we were paddling back, Umi told Aya to just leave her pole in the water and troll and see if she can get lucky…and lucky she got as she caught the State Fish just as we were entering the cove:
We ended our stay with dinner at the Canoehouse:
Aya’s father liked golfing at the 3rd hole at the Mauna Kea golf course. You tee off and hit it over the ocean and onto the green. A very scenic hole. We spread some of his ashes here when we came in 2009 and Aya’s mom said whenever she happens to pass, she wants to have all of her ashes spread here as well.
Before we tee’d off on the 3rd hole, Susu went down to spread the ashes:
The water seemed to be lower this time so it wasn’t as dangerous as the first time:
It ended up being a very nice day on the Big Island to say our goodbyes. Aya’s tee shot actually flew into the ocean so it was almost like a send off for Yoko.
I suck at golf, as this was only my 3rd time ever but I have to say, I hit the green and was only 10 feet from the pin!!
After golf, we went to the Four Season and had dinner at Pahui’a. This was our favorite restaurant when we went in 2009 with Yoko.
It worked out well because the restaurant just opened up again due to tsunami damage from Japan’s earthquake:
Cheers:
Champagne, nice dinner, family and a sunset….it was a good day.
Ruth and Chaunch joined us on the Big Island to scatter Yoko’s ashes. We all decided to honor her by playing a round of golf even though none of us golf:
Susu:
Chaunch:
Ruth:
Aya:
Aya putting….looks good…
…but not really:
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Aya’s brother likes to eat as much as Aya likes to eat:
Every morning we had a huge breakfast buffet. I probably had 4000 calorie breakfasts every morning!! Luckily we worked it off by playing ping pong:
We all went snorkeling and believe it or not, Aya did a great job. We swam about 1/4 mile out and Aya managed to swim out unassisted and didn’t have any mask/snorkel issues like usual:
We made our way to the Big Island for a short 3 1/2 day stay to scatter Aya’s mom’s ashes on Big Island where we scattered her father’s ashes. United was having a contest on who could guess the exact time and second where we would cross the half way point from LA to the Big Island. Aya’s brother used a formula to calculate the distance and Aya just randomly guessed….yup…wouldn’t you know it…down the second and Aya guessed correctly!
We got a free CD with Hawaiian music for the correct guess. Aya’s brother was upset because he actually thought it out and was off by 13 seconds. Aya gave him the CD anyway.
Our arrival at the Kona airport. Aya’s mom is in the backpack:
Aya and I came to the Big Island in 2003 and stayed at the Fairmont Orchid. We really liked it so we stayed here again:
Dinner at Browns on the Beach:
We finally picked up the cup Jack and Stacy painted for Mothers Day. I must say it came out better than I expected. It looked really, really bad at first but after it was fired and glazed with a glossy shine it didn’t look that bad:
Jack picked the colors…gray for 1/3 of the cup. Blue for a 1/3 and Orange for a 1/3. Then there is the red handle.
Happy Mother’s Day!
One day I tried to add some new games to the iPad and I got an “No more disc space” message. The iPad said I had a lot of pictures and video that needed to be deleted. I was thinking pictures and video? I don’t use pictures and video on the iPad. When I looked at the photo gallery, I found a TON of pictures!!
Apparently, Jack has been taking screen shots of all his zombie killing! I decided to delete most of the pictures and keep the ones I thought were funny.
This picture is of Jack lighting all the zombie body parts on fire:
Jack shooting the giant zombie:
Blowing up some zombies:
Using the wrecking ball approach!
Decapitation time:
Got head(s)?
Equal opportunity zombie killer:
Yeah…I probably won’t be winning any Parenting of the Year awards by letting Jack play these types of games.
Stacy loves to play with my hats. She likes to take it off my head…put it on her head and then immediately take it off her head!
Hopefully she keeps playing with ‘used’ and ‘cheap’ presents…no need to buy her toys when she can just use my hats!
Hey now, you’re and all-star…
Stacy is finally able to push herself down the slide now and she loves it!
Now the only problem is trying to get Stacy to use the stairs and wait her turn instead of just trying to walk back ‘up’ the slide.
